Barack Obama: Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Obama is entering the closing stretch of his presidency, an eleventh-hour push to tie up loose ends and put finishing touches on his legacy before handing the reins to President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP)

Was the 1929 Stock Market Crash bad for investors? Was Hurricane Katrina bad for the Gulf Coast?

In 2009, Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. Progressive media hailed the party’s “permanent majority.” Today, Democrats control none. Since 2009, Democratic Senate seats have declined by twelve to 48; House seats dropped from 256 to 194; Democrats lost twelve governorships and thirteen additional state legislatures. Nearly one thousand Democratic state officeholders received pink slips. Obama’s party hasn’t been so small or weak since the 1920s.

Obama’s prevarications and misjudgments were legion: Force-fed on his brazen lies, Obamacare is dying as insurers withdraw and premiums and deductibles soar. His administration unilaterally rewrote civil rights laws and betrayed American veterans. Touring Asia, Obama libeled Americans, the world’s most productive workers, as “lazy.” Last May, Obama stated, “By almost every measure, America is better, and the world is better than it was 50 years ago, or 30 years ago, or even eight years ago.”

Obama lost the peace in Iraq, shafted Israel, lost Turkey and Libya, gifted $100 billion to nuke-developing Iranian terror sponsors, labeled ISIS a jayvee team, restarted the Cold War, deferred to an adventurous China and damaged historic friendships. Humiliatingly, after Obama campaigned there for “Remain,” the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union

Americans watched as Obama rejected generations of American values. Sadly, Obama’s horribly divisive two terms set back race relations in America by decades. Accusing a nation which twice elected a black president of “institutional racism” isn’t merely unpersuasive, it’s repulsively insulting.

Eight years of Obama’s chronic narcissism, shameful extralegal conduct and incompetence transformed “Hope and Change” into “Make America Great Again.”

Was Obama bad for Democrats? To ask the question is to answer it. But, history will confirm that he was even worse for America.